With David Bonderman cofounded private equity behemoth Texas Pacific Group. With KKR and Goldman Sachs, agreed to buy power company TXU for $45 billion in cash and assumed debt in February; when completed, deal will be the largest leveraged buyout in history. Duo managed money for the Bass family; split to start TPG 1992. Bought Continental Airlines for $66 million; later sold for $640 million profit. Other hits: Burger King, J. Crew. Agreed to pay $17.1 billion with Leon Black's Apollo Management for Harrah's Entertainment casino company last December; purchase will close later this year. Prefer complex deals others shy away from. With affiliates, firm manages $50 billion today. Tinkered with idea of selling stake in company to outside investors this spring; put on hold after markets turned downward this summer. Duo are equal partners in TPG. Coulter Studied at Dartmouth, then Stanford M.B.A. Runs firm's daily operations, makes most of firm's investment decisions. Trustee at Stanford University.

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